IM pfren are you saying when I upgrade to W8 64-bit OS I'm going to have an instant problem with Adobe's frigging Flash Player which is always out-of-date or otherwise unusable an amazingly large percentage of the times its needed?

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When W8 will be out, there will be 64-bit versions of Firefox, Opera, Chrome and pretty much every popular browser- as well as pure 64-bit flashplugin for them. Currently only Internet Explorer is a pure 64-bit browser on the windows platform, if you want 64-bit Firefox you have to compile it yourself (which 99.5% of the users will not do).

Running a browser and the 32-bit flashplugin via the windows 7 64-bit compatibility layer does create some issues.

I do not have them, as I'm running 64-bit Linux, all the browsers I'm using are native 64-bit, and the 64-bit flashplugin.

The 64-bit Adobe flashplugin is quite stable for the last 7 months or so. Before that it was hell.

What "brand" of Linux are you running, and do you recommend it? And I don't think you're right about 99.5% of users not compiling their own 64-bit FF browser - I suspect the figure is closer to 99.9% :=)

I am using Archlinux on all my desktops/laptops (superb stuff, extremely user-friendly due to it's extreme simplicity, but not newbie-friendly...) and Debian stable in 4 production machines I am administrating.

If you want to try Linux to see if it works for you, simply install distro XXX in a virtual machine (using VirtualBox) and feel free to screw it as badly as you wish...

For desktop usage for newbies, I would say trying Linuxmint (although it doesn't click to me that much).

Thanks all for your responses. I have downloaded a new edition of shockwave but have not yet had a chance to see if it corrects the problem. I did notice on the net a lot of reports of recent shockwave crashes when it is used with chrome; which is what I have been using.

Anyone who could explain why there is always disconnection in your live games. I lost more than a hundred games already because of this. It disconnects three minutes before the clock ends and only reconnects after two minutes. And it happens when Iḿ at the advantage and end up losing in time. Is anyone messing with peopleś live games? I cannot play 5 minutes anymore because of this. The problem started about thwo or three months now...